(evening)                                                                                                                                                                             HOMEWORK

First Week - January 13
Course Introduction. 
A short history about the beginning of Russian film - Dziga Vertov, Alexander Pudovkin, Sergei Eistenstein.
Video cliups from  Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera, Pudovkin's Mother  and Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin.

Second Week - January 20

  The Cuckoo - (2002), Director - Aleksandr Ragoshkin, 99 min. / «Кукушка»,
              режиссёр: Александр Рагошкин.

Third Week - January 27

  The War - (2002), 120 min. / Director - Aleksei Balabanov,  «Война», режиссёр:
            Алексей Балабанов

Fourth Week  -  February 3

The Thief / (1997) 96 min., Pavel Chukhrai, director / «Bop»,  режиссёр:
        Павел Чухрай

Fifth Week  -  February 10
 Burnt by the Sun [literal translation ="Exhausted]" by the Sun - 1995, 135 min. / Director -
      Nikita Mikhalkov,  «Утомлённые солнцем», режиссёр: Никита Михалков

Sixth Week  -  February 17
  Irony of Fate... (1975: release to DVD 2002), 185 min. / Direcrtor, Eldar Ryazanov,  Иррония судьбы или с
    лёгким паром, режисёр: Ельдар Рязанов.  Owing to its length, screen this film outside of class.
        There are 5 copies in the library and one at the Language Lab.
           First take-home exam due.  You may submit on paper or electronically.  However, if you submit via
        computer, send the exam as an MS WORD attachment.

Seventh Week  - February 24

   Prisoner of the Mountains (1997) 98 min. Sergei Bodrov, director / «Кавказкий
       пленник», режиссёр: Сергей Бодров

Eighth Week  -  March 3

 Town Meeting Day - No Class

Ninth Week  -  March 10

Srping Break - No Classes 

Tenth Week   -  March 17

Brother - (1998), 96 min. / Director - Aleksei Balabanov, «Брат», режиссёр: Алексей
        Балабанов

Eleventh Week  -  March 24

  East/West / Est - Ouest (1999) 121 min. / [French-Russian collaboration]. Directed by Regis
       Wargnier./ «Восток-запад«, режиссёр: Regis Wargnier

Twelfth Week  -  March  31

House of Fools -  (2004),  108 min. / Director, Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovskii, «Дом дураков»,
        режиссёр: Андрей Михалков-Кончаловский
        Second take-home exam due.  You may submit on paper or electronically.  However, if you submit via
        computer, send the exam as an MS WORD attachment.

Thirteenth Week  -  April 7

 The Return - (2003), 104 min. / Director, Andrei Zvyagintsev, «Возвращение»,
           режиссёр: Андрей Звягинцев

Fourteenth Week  -  April 14

 Night Watch (2004) 114 min. / Director, Timur Bekmambetov,  / «Ночной дозор»,
          режиссёр: Тимур Бекмамбетов

Fifteenth Week  -  April 21

 Alive - (2006), 92 min. / Director - Aleksandr Veledinskij,  «Живой», режиссёр: 
              Александр Велединский

Sixteenth Week   -  April 28
  Oral exams for those who qualify.

Electronically forward your final exam as an MS WORD attachment
on or before May 7.